"BJP is encouraging communal forces as well as attacks on minorities. Atrocities on dalits are becoming very common. They are living in fear while precious human lives are at stake on what to eat and what not to. Such incidents and ideology are dangerous to the country and our secular fabric is being threatened (sic)," Yechury said.
He was addressing a two-day conclave of the CPI-M Telangana State Extended Executive Committee, which began here today.
He said returning of awards by various authors, filmmakers and other prominent persons in protest against 'intolerance' is not new as Nobel-laureate Rabindranath Tagore had also returned his award to the British government.
"As scores of authors, artists, poets and scientists have returned their awards against growing intolerance, the government should take a serious note and initiate remedial measures," he said.
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Referring to the BJP's debacle in Bihar Assembly elections, Yechury said, "The BJP's intolerance mantra is not acceptable to the country's secular people and the Bihar verdict is a clear indication to the BJP that such communal politics will not garner votes or seats for them".
"Nothing has been achieved through Modi's foreign trips. Economical growth has slowed down, prices of petrol and diesel have shot up 9 times in last sixteen months, rate of farmers' suicide has gone up by 19 per cent under NDA dispensation," Yechury said.
He alleged that farmers are yet to get satisfactory minimum support price for their produce and that manufacturing sector has slowed down to 2 per cent.
"Prices of pulses are skyrocketing and the common man cannot afford dal in his meal," the general secretary said.
Communist parties on a single platform and a Left Front will soon emerge as an alternative.
On terrorism, he said the IS was nurtured by the US to further its interests in Arab countries to gain control over petrol and gas.
He said the government should reveal the agenda of a proposal, if any, on a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart at the climate summit in Paris.
"Before the general elections last year, the BJP used to tell that they will teach a lesson to Pakistan. Has BJP taught any lesson to Pakistan," Yechury questioned.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Kisan Sabha (MKS), affiliated to All India Kisan Sabha, stated in a release that over 65,000 farmers have committed suicides in Maharashtra since 1995.
"Policies of the BJP-led governments of Narendra Modi and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadanvis are ranged against farmers and only platitudes are being dished out.
"Modi in his pre-election speeches and BJP's poll manifesto of 2014 had stated that recommendation of Swaminathan Commission of giving MSP as cost of production plus 50 per cent profit would be implemented. However, on coming to power, the Modi regime filed an affidavit in Supreme Court in February 2015 declaring that giving this price to farmers is unfeasible. There is no talk of giving loan waiver to the farmers," it stated.
"The total estimated loan in the country is Rs 8 lakh crore and in Maharashtra the total loan of 40 lakh agricultural households is Rs 39,000 crore.
"Liquor king Vijay Mallya, who was elected to Rajya Sabha from Karnataka with BJP's support, was allowed to flee the country although he has fleeced banks of Rs 9,000 crore," the release added.